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January/February 2017 volume 44, number 3
Contents
SCALL Institute: Exploring San Diego
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From the President 1
SCALL Members Gather to Celebrate the New Year
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Career Opportunities 3
Membership News 4
In the New Year… 5
The Box is Dead: Don’t Think Outside It, Transcend It!
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Executive Board Meeting Minutes 10
Treasurer’s Report 11
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SCALL Institute: Exploring San Diego By Sherry L. Leysen
If you have not been to San Diego recently (or ever), you have a lot to look forward to at our upcoming Institute! The following is a curated list of places to eat, things to do, and sights to see. The historic Horton Grand Hotel is the venue and hotel for the 2017 SCALL Institute (March 3-4, 2017). Located in the bustling 16 square block Gaslamp Quarter, it is named for the area’s early landowner and city visionary Alonzo Horton. The Gaslamp has a colorful history: in the late 19th century, folks referred to the waterfront area as the “Stingaree” district (Wyatt Earp, gambling, and 71 saloons made for a very lively nightlife). Today, it is fun to people-watch from the many restaurants, and to walk the Gaslamp at night with its twinkling street lamps. This area is easy to explore (and a rental bike station is right next to the hotel), but you may enjoy the Tin Fish Gaslamp (.4 walking) for fish tacos or Searsucker (.2 walking) which also has a late-night menu. For coffee and tea, try Pasadena-based Copa Vida on J Street in the East Village (.4 walking), located near Petco Park, the home of the San Diego Padres.
One area you must venture to is Little Italy (about 1.2-1.5 miles walking), described by my good friend as “48 square blocks of YUM!” For authentic Italian, try Filippi’s Pizza Grotto (1.3 walking). LA’s (and now OC’s) Café Gratitude (1.5 walking) has opened its first San Diego location in a great corner location on Kettner. Close by is the popular Herb & Wood for dinner, and the newly opened Herb & Eatery (café and market). In a modern/rustic two-story space is the popular Bracero Cocina with great service and Mexican food. Across the street from Bracero is Craft & Commerce with outdoor fire-pit style seating. The Crack Shack (brought to you by Juniper and Ivy) serves “all day chicken and eggs” and judging by the line, people like it a lot. A description of San Diego would not be complete without mentioning its craft brewers. In Little Italy, you also will find a Ballast Point Tasting Room.
For a perfect place for larger groups to gather over coffee or a glass of wine, stop by Extraordinary Desserts (Union Street, .9 walking). The desserts here are
From the President By Stefanie Frame
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Hello all! I hope each of you had a
wonderful holiday season! It was a treat
to start the new year with our SCALL
Holiday Party. It was held on January
12, 2017, at the Karl Strauss Brewing
Company in downtown Los Angeles.
Thanks to everyone who attended for the
good company and conversation! Thank
you to CEB for generously sponsoring
this event, we greatly appreciate your
continued support! I would also like to
thank Bloomberg BNA for providing the
door prize, and Westlaw and Lexis for
providing giveaway prizes! Special
thank you to the Programs Committee –
Elyse, Sarah, and Maggie – for your
excellent work and efforts!
Soon on the horizon is our 45th Annual
SCALL Institute on March 3-4, 2017. It
will be at the beautiful and historic
Horton Grand Hotel in downtown San
Diego. Vice President Ramon Barajas
and his excellent team have crafted an
incredibly timely program entitled
ConLaw Conundrum: Constitutional Law
& Challenges in Today’s Environment.
Thanks to all of you for your hard work!
With a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme
Court, vast changes promised by the new
administration, and the inherent
challenges ahead, this program provides
context for all of us. Our end users –
whether your institution is academic,
court, private, or public – will be
researching, writing, and speaking on
Constitutional Law and U.S. Supreme
Court topics in conjunction with these
changes. The speakers and program
provide a broad base of knowledge and
experience, and I eagerly anticipate this
Institute. I hope to see many of you
there!
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so beautiful and delicious with an equally impressive space to match.
The San Diego based Puesto is located at the Headquarters Seaport Village (.6 walking) not far from the waterfront and serves amazing tacos. Now an open-air shopping and dining plaza, this building is the former headquarters of the San Diego Police, complete with a restored cell jail block and lineup wall for photo ops. Further down the waterfront (1.0 mile walking from the hotel) is an impressive aircraft carrier, the USS Midway Museum. For fine dining with a view, stop by Coasterra on nearby Harbor Island (4 miles by car).
Be sure and make time for a visit to Coronado, Balboa Park, Old Town (Rose’s Tasting Room was recommended there), or La Jolla. Take the 15-minute ferry to Coronado Island ($4.75 each way) (but if you like heights and fear-inducing bridges, simply drive over the Coronado Bridge). Browse Coronado’s downtown district shops, stop by Tartine for lunch or the Hotel Del for brunch, or rent a bike at Holland’s. Balboa Park is 1,200 acres of museums, trails, gardens, the world-famous San Diego Zoo, and the Prado restaurant -- you could spend days here!
For more recreation, La Jolla is definitely worth a stop (about a 20 minute drive from the hotel). Head over to the Coast Walk Trail and stop by The Cave Store
for access to the Jim Sea Cave ($5 for adults) along a 145-step tunnel. And you may as well get an ice cream at Bobboi (.4 walk from The Cave Store) while you are there. For some fantastic art and sculpture, stop by the UCSD campus to see the Stuart Collection, including Do Ho Su’s The Fallen Star.
San Diego has so much to offer – enjoy the SCALL Institute and happy exploring! *With special thanks to my good friend CCB for her many recommendations.
Sherry L. Leysen is the Research/
Instruction Librarian – Faculty Services
at the Chapman University Fowler
School of Law.
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Speakers
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the School of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law
Catherine Fisk, Chancellor ’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Kimberly West-Faulcon, Professor of Law, James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law, Loyola Law School
Brian Hoffstadt, Associate Justice, California, 2nd District Court of Appeal
David Cruz, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Ron Wheeler, 2016/2017 AALL President, Director of the Fineman & Pappas Law Librar ies and Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
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Don Buffaloe
Chair, SCALL Placement Committee
Career Opportunities By Don Buffaloe
SCALL Newsletter
Date Posted Job Description Location
January 26 Research Analyst, Sidley Austin Los Angeles & other cities
January 26 Director of Research Library Services; Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Los Angeles or San Francisco
January 19 Research and Training Librarian; Fisher Phillips Flexible Location
January 19 Research Manager; Sidley Austin Los Angeles
January 18 Research Analyst; LibGig Los Angeles
January 18 Prospect Researcher; The Public Interest Network Los Angeles
January 9 Supervising Librarian I; California Dept. of Justice Law Library San Francisco
January 5 User Experience Librarian; Riverside County Law Library Riverside
December 16 Cataloging Librarian; LA Law Library Los Angeles
December 16 Managing Librarian; Serials & Acquisitions; LA Law Library Los Angeles
SCALL Members Gather to Celebrate the New Year By Kelly M. Leong
On Thursday, January 12, 2017, many
SCALL members gathered to celebrate
the new year at the Karl Strauss Brewing
Company located in Downtown Los
Angeles on Wilshire Boulevard. Almost
50 local librarians attended and enjoyed
samples of the Karl Strauss beer and
were served an excellent dinner.
Colleagues discussed their recent
holiday adventures, the Chargers move
to Los Angeles, the unusually wet
weather, and their personal and
professional plans for the coming year.
While the evening was a joyful one,
after dinner, SCALL President Stefanie
Frame, led the group in a moment of
silence to recognize the treasured
librarian colleagues we lost in 2016.
A big thank you to CEB for sponsoring
the event, which helped keep the
attendance fee low for our members. The
celebration came complete with prizes
provided by our sponsors and distributed
by the members of the Programs
Committee. Lexis generously provided a
substantial amount of swag including
coveted Starbucks gift cards. Bloomberg
Law provided a stunning coffee table
book with pictures of beautiful libraries
from around the world. The Lexis and
Bloomberg Law gifts were raffled off to
attendees. Westlaw provided water
bottles for door prizes.
With the new year comes changes, as
happens with all new beginnings. It was
great to see colleagues and enjoy a
casual dinner together. Many thanks to
our Programs Committee, especially co-
chairs Elyse Meyers (UCLA) and Sarah
Joshi (CEB), and all of our sponsors for
making the evening so enjoyable and
giving us the opportunity to catch up
with our peers. I look forward to seeing
everyone in March at the SCALL
Institute in San Diego. It will be a great
opportunity to reconnect with our
SCALL colleagues and to hear about
what expected, and unexpected things
have happened since the holiday party.
Kelly M. Leong is a Reference
Librarian at the UCLA Law Library in
Los Angeles, CA.
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Ryan Metheny has a new job title at the LA Law Library. As of January 1 he is Managing Librarian, Legal Education. He tells us that he will be overseeing all of the educational programs and events at the library (which this fiscal year will total around 300 public and MCLE classes, clinics and workshops at our Main and branch/partnership locations), with the help of the best public law library team ever.
As of January 1, Malinda Muller became the director of the newly reorganized and renamed Patron Services department at LA Law Library. Following the retirement of Ralph Stahlberg, Malinda now has oversight for the combined Patron Services department budget, the educational, reference, and clinical programming, Law Week and Pro Bono Week events, and the global law unit.
Welcome new members!
Patrick Lavey is Senior Cataloging Librar ian with UCLA School of Law, Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library.
Welcome new student members!
Mariana Newman is an Intern at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library
Welcome back, returning members!
Larry Zamora is Reference Librar ian with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
In Memoriam Robert S. "Bob" Ryan, a Life Member of SCALL, served as a librar ian at Hill, Far rer & Burr ill LLP in Los Angeles, California, until his retirement in 2013. Ryan earned his JD from Albany Law School and promptly began a 40-year career as an attorney and an assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor, before becoming a law librarian. He passed away November 19, 2016 after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Future Membership News
Any corrections, changes, or additions to your membership information, as well as any announcements for Membership News, should be sent to:
Membership News By Judy K. Davis and Karen Skinner
Judy K. Davis Karen Skinner
Co-Chair, SCALL Membership Committee Co-Chair, SCALL Membership Committee
Law Librarian, Head of Access Services and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
Law Librarian, Research Services, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law USC Gould School of Law
University of Southern California University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071
(213) 740-2189 (213) 740-2615
[email protected] [email protected]
Apply for a Grant to
Attend AALL It’s the middle of winter and I’m already looking forward to warmer days. How does Austin, Texas sound for warmer days? The theme of this year’s AALL Annual Meeting is “Forgo the Status Quo.” As a member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee, I can tell you that we have a great lineup and many programs that will get you thinking outside the box. If you’re interested in attending, but have financial constraints, please consider applying for a SCALL grant. The Grants Committee will consider all applications. Please know that all grant recipients will be expected to write an article for the SCALL Newsletter related to their attendance at the Annual Meeting (e.g., summary of a program session, experience as a first-time attendee, review of a new vendor product). The grant application is available on SCALL’s website. To ensure plenty of time to register and book your accommodations, we’re requesting all grant applications for the Annual Meeting be submitted by April 7th. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me. Cindy Guyer SCALL Grants Committee Chair
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Welcome to 2017! Once again, the SCALL Newsletter is here to share some of our members’ New Year’s resolutions and provide a little help with your own. Whether you have made a big list of resolutions and you're diligently working to keep them, or you didn't quite get around to resolving anything, this article will provide you with some fun, helpful, and hopefully entertaining ways to start off the New Year.
First, let's take a look at what some of our colleagues have decided to do this year. Christine Langteau of the LA Law Library has three goals in par ticular . She wants to be more appreciative and mindful, she would like to get serious about cleaning out her house and garage, and finally, she plans to engage in more creative pursuits.
Malinda Muller of the LA Law Library also has a creative New Year's resolution: She is going to do something in the functional (as opposed to fine) arts. And guess what? She's already off to a fantastic start! Malinda has begun a ten-week shop course in woodworking. She plans to make a ten-inch bowl of mahogany, maple and walnut. Best of luck, Malinda! I hope we can post a photo of it when you finish! And if Malinda and Christine have inspired you to create something too, I know a certain newsletter that wouldn’t mind an extra article here and there…
Jenny Lilge of Legislative Intent Service plans to clean her office, but not in the typical sense. Her office prides itself on being paperless, so she will be eradicating the last few paper files that are still hiding in the corners. Having seen a couple of paperless offices, I'm impressed!
Jim Sherman tells us that his pr imary goal of this year and every year is to
In the New Year... By Judy K. Davis
give up sobriety. We wish him luck with that, and I bet we could find a few SCALL members who are willing to help him in that endeavor! His other goals are to be less lazy about cleaning his house, and to continue cycling. What
a great balance of fun, healthy and practical goals. I hope we have a beautiful spring so that Jim can get outside and work on that cycling soon!
I hadn’t realized that SCALL has so many athletes until I started writing this article. Melody Lembke of UCI also plans to
exercise more, and Lisa Junghahn of UCI has shared that she and her wife have resolved to take tennis lessons to help them learn how to serve. Lisa also has a professional goal, which is to finish an article on best practices for improving LLM confidence and motivation for learning. If any SCALL colleagues have advice or would like to co-write with her, she would love to hear from you! Amy Atchison of UCI informs us that on the advice of the AALL Bylaws and Resolutions Committee, she has resolved
to clean up AALL's bylaws. She anticipates that the corrections will be mostly cosmetic, so hopefully it won’t be too daunting! And on behalf of her youngest daughter, Amy resolves to read the Harry Potter series and then watch all of the movies with her.
Finally, Cindy Guyer of USC says that her resolution for 2017 is to keep hope alive in her mind and heart. She knows she will encounter challenges this year like adjusting to new job responsibilities, having her kitchen remodeled, watching her son become a teenager, and dealing with budget cuts at work–just to name a few. Added to those may be some new challenges to the principles of democracy and equality that underlie our country. Cindy has resolved that if she ever feels like giving up, becoming depressed, or worrying about bleak outcomes, she will steer herself toward hope.
Have our members’ resolutions have inspired you to set some of your own goals for the coming year? Hopefully so. If you still need a little more motivation to start working on them, then read on. The following short bibliography may help support your new resolutions. At the very least, they will provide some
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Malinda Muller of the LA Law
Library also has a creative New
Year's resolution: She is going to
do something in the functional (as
opposed to fine) arts. And guess
what? She's already off to a
fantastic start! Malinda has begun
a ten-week shop course in
woodworking.
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Session Speakers
Networking event evening of 3/31/17 Malcolm Kushner
Keynote address Jodie Berger, Administrative Law Judge (CA)
Session 1 – How CA regulations are promulgated Eric Partington, Office of Administrative Law Karen Halbo, Regulations Analyst, CA Dept. of Public Health
Session 2 – How to find current regulations either by citation or by topic
Richard Schulke, SF Law Library
Lunch Emily Florio, AALL VIP Guest Michael Ginsborg, NOCALL President
Session 3 – How to research CA regulatory history Richard Schulke, SF Law Library
Session 4 – What issues stand in the way of a simpler, more streamlined research process, e.g. content format/accessibility and copyright issues
Kris Kasianovitz, Stanford Library and Free State Government Information
For more information visit: https://nocall.org/spring-institute-2017/
entertaining reading!
Mystie Winckler, Paperless Home Organization: How to Create a Digital Home Management Binder, Kindle Edition (of course!) 2013. Whether you would truly like to try going paperless this year, or you’d just like to be a little more organized, this e-book provides lots of detailed suggestions for setting up a digital home management system. Who knows—if it works, you could try it in the office next year!
Michael Matthews, Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body; Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body, 2015. These are actually two books, so choose the one that works for you. Readers report great success when following Matthews’s program, so if one of your goals this year is to get in better
shape, these books might be a great place to start.
Lonely Planet, Epic Bike Rides of the World, 2016. Whether you want to cycle more, or you just love to look at beautiful pictures of interesting places, this book has something for you. Lonely Planet provides descriptions and photos of 200 bike rides, ranging from U.S. city paths, to country roads in Europe, to remote journeys like Patagonia and Mongolia. Pick this up and get inspired to hit the road!
Melissa Fleming, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, 2017. If you need a little encouragement to bolster your hope these days, check out the journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young woman who fled Syria to Egypt and eventually Europe in search of a better life during Arab Spring. Even when she found
herself adrift at sea for four days with two little girls clinging to her and only a child’s inflatable float for support, she still refused to give up. Doaa’s strength and relentless hope can inspire us all.
Jancis Robinson, 24-Hour Wine Expert, 2016. If you have resolved to drink more and better wine this year—or was that just me? —this book is worth your time. Author Jancis Robinson, respected wine critic and writer, believes that anyone can learn all the important aspects of wine in just one day. This approachable explanation will teach you how to buy wine, understand and interpret the differences in color and aroma, pair wine with food, and understand all that mysterious information on the label. Cheers!
Judy K. Davis is a Senior Law
Librarian, Head of Access Services, and
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at
the USC Gould School of Law.
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For years, it seems people have been giving us librarians the same career advice. With so many changes occurring in our profession, well-intentioned industry watchers have been telling us to “think outside the box” when it comes to our careers and longevity. With title changes, shifting responsibilities, technological advances, I sometimes think librarians have had more reinventions than Madonna has. Let’s just be honest shall we? It’s 2017 and high time for the clichéd job guidance to go. My friends, the box is dead. I have seen so much change in my over 20 years in this profession. Yet, despite my own varied experiences, I have answered one question consistently with the same response. When people ask me what I do, I have always kept my riposte direct and simple. “I am a librarian,” I say with pride and gusto. Truth be told, however, I have not always been what you might consider your typical librarian – at least not when it comes to how and where I work. That’s right, I have what you might call a history outside the box. I have long believed that the key to keeping our profession vital and vibrant is to keep an eye out for opportunities we may never have even considered in the past. During my first non-library-librarian stint, as a customer relations manager for what was then Thomson West, I was interviewed for the Special Library Association’s Information Outlook magazine. It was 11 years ago, during that Q & A when I uttered a statement that has guided my career to this day. The interviewer based his entire profile
The Box is Dead: Don’t Think Outside It, Transcend It! By John DiGilio
of me around my affirmation, “I am and always will be a librarian.” Now mind you, I said that during a discussion in which I talked about the changing roles of law librarians and my own decision to go over to what many told me was the “dark side.” Well, dark side be damned. It is over a decade later and, though I did return to the more traditional law firm library world for another long stint, I am
once again back in vendorland. Suffice it to say that my belief in keeping my prospects open has served me well. Let us just look at the state of our profession today, shall we. Outside of the public realm and academia (which have faced their own struggles), corporate and law firm libraries are physically smaller than ever. What has not been replaced by digital and online access hardly requires the maintenance staff it once did
when the stacks were at the height of their importance. Law firms are back-officing, outsourcing, and reimagining their services at an increasing rate. Industry surveys now remind us annually that our employers are expecting to reduce their library expenses and staff year over year. This seems to have led many of our colleagues to two conclusions: that
these are precarious times for law librarians and that we need to fight back within the confines of our firms. Both are perfectly adequate responses, the latter being a better prescription for facing our challenges than just accepting the stories of gloom and doom. But my own experience tells me that there is another approach all together. That’s right, leaving that proverbial box behind – transcending it. It was almost a year ago now that I made one of the biggest job changes of my career. I had been with a wonderful firm for nearly a decade. As a national manager of research services, I had an amazing team of professionals that I watched contract over the years and a network of on-site libraries that had been shrinking even more rapidly. Despite the changes, we were
flourishing. The workload was increasing heavily and diversifying in exciting ways. Our librarians were embedded and specialized and always on the lookout for new ways to demonstrate the value of our skills and services. For my part, I met every change and challenge by challenging my staff to look for new opportunities and to innovate. Always having done
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something – or even doing something well at the time – was never an excuse for not doing it differently and better going forward. In my heart, I knew that my own advice also included doing things in ways and from places we would never have considered at the time. I also knew full well that I was eventually going to have to take my own advice. Flash forward to where I am now. As Senior Director of Research & Intelligence for LibSource – a LAC Group company, I am once again leading an awesome cadre of legal research professionals. Every one of us is a proud librarian – though none of us works in a library or even in a firm. Most of us have had significant in-firm experience and all of us now service a variety of firms doing everything from basic legal research to complex competitive intelligence. As head of the group, I see some of my primary duties including creating new and rewarding opportunities for my librarians and others like them, supporting their continuing education, and working to ensure that our clients only get the highest quality work product. If all of this sounds familiar (and it should), know that I am doing this for a team of professionals who work remotely, virtually, and collaboratively from their own homes and mobile “offices.” I function just like my staff, working with them and with our clients in a virtual world of live streaming, e-mail, conference calls, and research management systems. If you had told me even five years ago that I would give up my office, my desktop, and my firm-issued phones, I would have told you that you were crazy. Had you suggested I use such a system in my firm, I probably would have escorted you from my office. What a difference time, opportunity, and, to some degree, necessity make. Oh, I still provide the exact same answer to the question of what I do, by the way. That at least has not changed. I guess what I am getting at with all of this is that I understand what most of my
colleagues seem to be saying these days. With all the challenges law firm librarians are facing these days, the future can indeed appear worrisome. We
must be proactive, innovative, and forward thinking. One of the ways we can do that is to take the challenges head on within our firms and our libraries. Fight for every inch of that proverbial box and the real estate beyond it, as they say. But I also offer
another possibility. Forget the box all together. Leave it behind if it already has not left you (or before it does so). Do not fear or overlook those opportunities that truly challenge your conception of what it means to be a librarian or to offer library services. There is no one single prescription that is going to work for
every librarian or every firm. What’s important is that we see and share every opportunity during these times of change and transition. I am as optimistic about the profession today as I was when I gave that interview back in 2006. There’s an evolution afoot and I am excited to see what comes next for us all. If there is one thing of which I am certain, it is that librarians are here to stay. We may fill vastly new and important roles and they may call us by other titles. They are going to call on us, however, and that is key. We have a future. It is the box that once confined us that is soon to be a thing of the past.
John DiGilio is the Senior Director,
Research & Intelligence at LibSource.
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continued from page 8 (The Box is Dead)
Do not fear or overlook
those opportunities that truly
challenge your conception of
what it means to be a
librarian or to offer library
services.
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A regular meeting of the SCALL
Executive Board was held on
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Stefanie Frame, President
Ramon Barajas, Vice President
Joy Shoemaker, Treasurer
Christina Tsou, Board Member
Erik Y. Adams, Board Member
A quorum being present, the meeting
was called to order at 4:09 p.m.
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the last session of the
regular board meeting were presented for
review.
Erik Y. Adams moved to approve the
minutes, and Joy Shoemaker seconded.
There was no discussion and the motion
carried.
Treasurer’s Report
Joy Shoemaker reported that most of the
committee budgets stayed the same as
last year. The IT Committee budget has
gone down to $1,000 because the new
website is complete. The Membership
Committee requested $2,800 but their
budget was left at $2,600 because that
committee brings in income. The total
budget is $42,750.00 which is less than
last year because the website is finished.
The current bank balance is $42,212.09
and PayPal balance is $500.00 for a total
balance of $47,212.09.
Christina Tsou moved to approve the
report, and Erik Y. Adams seconded.
Secretary’s Report
Christina Tsou filled in for Amber
Kennedy Madole and reported that as of
September 28, 2016, SCALL has a new
mailing address. The new mailing
address is: 5042 Wilshire Blvd. #970,
Los Angeles, CA 90036. Notice of the
new address change was emailed to the
SCALL Board, SCALL Committee
chairs, and the SCALL membership at
Executive Board
Meeting Minutes
By Amber Kennedy Madole & Christina Tsou
large. The website and membership
forms have also been updated with the
new address.
Ramon Barajas moved to approve the
report, and Joy Shoemaker seconded.
President’s Report
Stefanie Frame reported that Julie
Pabarja (Chair of the Council of
Chapter Presidents) informed her that
AALL’s logo is being updated. Stefanie
Frame will email the new logo to the
Board and Committee Chairs.
Stefanie Frame attended the Chapter
Summit on July 15, 2016 prior to the
start of the AALL Meeting. The
program engaged attendees to talk about
“pain points” and getting more chapter
members to get out in person. It was
discussed that we should start sending
personalized welcome emails to new
members to inform them of SCALL
committees and to provide links to the
website and to invite them to get
involved. Joy Shoemaker volunteered
to make a list of new members from the
last few newsletters so that Stefanie
Frame could reach out them.
Stefanie Frame reported that she signed
the contract for the location of the 2017
SCALL Institute to be held at the
Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego on
March 3, 2017 and March 4, 2017.
Erik Y. Adams moved to approve the
report, and Christina Tsou seconded.
Vice President’s Report
Ramon Barajas shared the working draft
of the 2017 SCALL Institute program,
tentatively entitled “Constitutional Law:
Challenges to the Current Changes in
Law and Society.” Confirmed speakers
include Erwin Chemerinsky (Keynote),
Catherine Fisk, Kimberly West-
Faulcon, Brian Hoffstadt, and David
Cruz. The AALL VIP will be either
Ron Wheeler or Greg Lambert.
It was discussed that perhaps a Library
tour could be scheduled for Saturday
afternoon.
All the Institute committee chairs are in
place. Ramon Barajas asked for any
questions to be sent in advance to
Justice Hoffstadt for an outline/speaking
points.
Joy Shoemaker moved to approve the
report, and Erik Y. Adams seconded.
Committee Reports
All committee reports have been
received and are considered submitted
as filed with a few minor corrections.
Old Business
There was no old business to discuss.
New Business
Ramon Barajas suggested that since the
SCALL website is now on a private
server, we might want to consider
running advertisements as a revenue
stream. It was discussed that the
SCALL newsletter might have more
traffic and ads might be better served by
staying there. Joy Shoemaker
mentioned that the newsletter format
might be changed to integrate into the
website. Christina Tsou and Joy
Shoemaker reported that they have an
upcoming Newsletter Committee
meeting where they will take a look at
the advertising and options for
integrating the newsletter into the
website.
Erik Y. Adams reported that the
Programs Committee would like to
change their bylaws and strike out
language about “ethnic food.” Adams
will look into what it takes to amend
committee bylaws and/or get in touch
with the Bylaws Committee Chair, Amy
Atchison.
Joy Shoemaker reported that Cindy
Guyer, Chair of the Grants Committee,
has set up a repository of previous grant
recipients on the new SCALL website.
The new SCALL website includes
password-protected repository space so
we should let the committees know that
this feature is available to them.
Stefanie Frame will send information to
the committee chairs.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Christina Tsou
Board Member, Secretary Pro Tem
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President
Stefanie Frame
Foley & Lardner LLP
555 S. Flower St. #3500
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 972-4657
Vice-President / President-Elect
Ramon Barajas
Alston & Bird LLP
333 South Hope Street, 16th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 576-1092
Treasurer
Joy Shoemaker
U.S. Court of Appeals Library
125 S. Grand Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 229-7191
Secretary
Amber Kennedy Madole
Loyola Law School
Williams M. Rains Library
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 736-8389
Executive Board Members
Christina Tsou
UC Irvine Law Library
401 East Peltason Drive
Law 2026
Irvine, CA 92697
(949) 824-1430
Erik Y. Adams
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
333 South Hope Street
Forty-Third Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 617-5429
Immediate Past President
Victoria Williamson
Riverside County Law Library
3989 Lemon St.
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 368-0360
Executive Board 2016–2017
Submission Deadlines The SCALL Newsletter team welcomes submission of any articles of interest to the law
library community. Contact Christina Tsou, SCALL Newsletter Editor: [email protected]
All submissions should be received by:
Mar/Apr 2017 March 20, 2017
May/Jun 2017 May 8, 2017
Sept/Oct 2017 September 11, 2017
Nov/Dec 2017 November 13, 2017
Jan/Feb 2018 January 16, 2018
Treasurer’s Report By Joy Shoemaker
SCALL Balances
Bank Balance as of February 10, 2017 $51,518.09
PayPal Balance as of February 10, 2017* $5,066.84
Total Balance as of February 10, 2017 $56,584.93
*Majority of current PayPal funds are for SCALL Institute and are not reflected in
committee line item in table.
SCALL Newsletter
Committee Budget Income Expenses Budget Balance
Archives $100.00 $0.00 $0.00 $100.00
Awards $400.00 $0.00 $249.58 $150.42
Board/Pres/VP $4,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $4,000.00
Government Relations $400.00 $0.00 $0.00 $400.00
Grants $6,000.00 $0.00 $965.00 $5,035.00
IT $1,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,000.00
Institute $12,000.00 $7,491.68 $1,120.63 $18,371.05
Inner City Youth $5,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $5,000.00
Library School Liaison $5,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $5,000.00
Membership $2,600.00 $5,579.72 $1,320.00 $6,859.72
Newsletter $300.00 $185.00 $0.00 $485.00
Professional Development
$1,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,000.00
Programs $3,000.00 $3,863.00 $3,151.79 $3,711.21
PALI $150.00 $0.00 $0.00 $150.00
Public Relations $300.00 $0.00 $0.00 $300.00
Secretary $1,000.00 $0.00 $280.00 $720.00
Treasurer $500.00 $0.00 $80.00 $420.00
Totals $42,750.00 $17,119.40 $7,167.00 $52,702.40
Newsletter
Staff 2016–2017
John DiGilio
LibSource
(323) 459-4999
Lisa Junghahn
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-6421
Committee
Chairs 2016–2017
Archives
Christine Langteau
LA Law Library
(213) 785-2542
Awards
Jennifer A. Berman
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
(310) 551-9360
Budget & Finance
Jessica Wimer
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-7293
Bylaws
Amy Atchison
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-3203
Government Relations
David McFadden
Southwestern Law School
Library
(213) 738-6726
Grants
Cynthia Guyer
USC Law Library
(213) 740-2621
Information Technology—
Listserv & Website
Suzie Shatarevyan
Loyola Law School Library
(213) 736-1147
Inner City Youth
Diana Jaque
USC Law Library
(213) 740-6482
Institute
Ramon Barajas
Alston & Bird LLP
(213) 576-1092
Institute Advisory
Jennifer Berman
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
(310) 551-9360
Library School Liaison
Stephanie Anayah
UCLA Law Library
(310) 206-4860
Membership
Judy K. Davis, Co-Chair
USC Law Library
(213) 740-2189
Karen Skinner, Co-Chair
USC Law Library
(213) 740-2615
Newsletter
Judy K. Davis
USC Law Library
(213) 740-2189
Christina Tsou
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-1430
Jessica Wimer
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-7293
Nominations
Cornell Winston
United States Attorney’s Office
(213) 894-2419
Placement
Donald Buffaloe
Pepperdine University School of
Law
(310) 506-4823
Professional Development
Jennifer Berman, Co-Chair
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
(310) 551-9360
Mark Gediman
Best Best & Krieger LLP
(951) 826-8230
Programs
Sarah Joshi, Co-Chair
Continuing Education of the Bar
(800) 988-4340
Elyse Meyers, Co-Chair
UCLA Law Library
(310) 794-5415
Public Access to Legal
Information
Elizabeth Caulfield
Court of Appeal, Second
Appellate District
(213) 830-7242
Public Relations
Bret N. Christensen
Riverside County Law Library
(951) 368-0379
Relations with Vendors
Lawrence R. Meyer
Law Library for San Bernardino
County
(909) 885-3020
Kelly Leong
UCLA Law Library
(310) 206-3793
Sherry L. Leysen
Fowler School of Law at
Chapman University
(714) 628-2546
Jim Senter
Jones Day
(213) 243-2531
Editors
Judy K. Davis
USC Law Library
(213) 740-2189
Christina Tsou
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-1430
Jessica Wimer
UCI Law Library
(949) 824-7293
Compiler
Jessica Pierucci UCI Law Library (949) 824-5370 [email protected]
Business Manager
Patrick Sullivan Jones Day (213) 243-2530 [email protected]
Webmaster and Listserv
Suzie Shatarevyan Loyola Law School Library (213) 736-1147 [email protected]
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